Fujitsu today announced the global launch of its MHX2300BT series of mobile hard disk drives. The newest Fujitsu products feature impressive storage capacities of 250GB and 300GB, the first 2.5" PMR hard disk drives in the industry to attain these high levels of capacity.

In March, Fujitsu successfully launched the world's first 2.5" Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drive to feature up to 200GB of storage space. Today, less than a year later, Fujitsu sets the standard even higher as it introduces its latest ultra-high capacity mobile hard disk drive series. Engineered using perpendicular magnetic recording technology, which is essential to achieving the increased capacity per platter, the new small form factor HDDs will address the growing demand for higher capacity storage solutions.

According to the company, additional benefits of its second generation PMR products include best-in-class low power consumption at 1.6W as well as high shock tolerance and near-silent operation. These qualities make the MHX2300BT series highly desirable for audio/video (A/V) applications such as gaming, video editing, audio recording and DVR functionality, as well as for the high-end personal computing market.

The MHX2300BT series will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2007.

The higher the density of PMR drives will be, the higher the data rate should be. It wouldn't even surprise me to see slower RPM perpendicular drives in the future. Imagine a 2.5", 500GB, 2400 RPM drive with a transfer rate of 200MB/sec.

thatd be swell, i like the external ministack still tho cause of its extra firewire and usb ports, but that would be a sweet upgrade just to speed up the internal drive while keeping it cool im sure the pricetag on it will turn me away tho haha

thatd be swell, i like the external ministack still tho cause of its extra firewire and usb ports, but that would be a sweet upgrade just to speed up the internal drive while keeping it cool im sure the pricetag on it will turn me away tho haha

It would be nice to see a thinner miniStack version that uses 2.5" drives. You can fit two 2.5" drives side-by-side inside a case the size of a Mac mini, so imagine the Belkin Mac mini hub but with one or two 2.5" drives in them.